When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left Salzburg in 1780 and
moved to Wien, he started composing different music
including the basset horn. In 1785 he composed the Adio
KV 411 (440a) for 2 clarinets and 3 basset horns. This
is a piece of special beauty in its sound, but
unfortunately remained singular in its
instrumentation. In order to make available more music
for this instrumentation, we arranged Mozart’s
‘Adagio und Allegro in f. Ein Stück für ein
Orgelwerk in einer Uhr’ KV 594, composed...(+)
When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart left Salzburg in 1780 and
moved to Wien, he started composing different music
including the basset horn. In 1785 he composed the Adio
KV 411 (440a) for 2 clarinets and 3 basset horns. This
is a piece of special beauty in its sound, but
unfortunately remained singular in its
instrumentation. In order to make available more music
for this instrumentation, we arranged Mozart’s
‘Adagio und Allegro in f. Ein Stück für ein
Orgelwerk in einer Uhr’ KV 594, composed in 1790,
for 2 clarinets and 3 basset horns.